SNL Transcripts: Danny DeVito: 12/03/88: Big Red

Saturday Night Live Transcripts

Season 14: Episode 7

88g: Danny DeVito / The Bangles

Big Red

Dad…..Kevin Nealon
Mom…..Nora Dunn

[ open on boy and girl playing a boring board game ]

Girl: It’s your turn again.

Boy: I wish we had something fun to play with.

[ Big Red crashes through the ceiling ]

Jingle: [ explains the use of the toy ]“Here he comes, from the frozen north
Big Red!

A mighty man from the land of Thor
Big Red!
Big Red!

You pour in the goop
In the helmet thing
But you better watch out
When you pull the string!
Big Red!
Big Red!
Big Red!

He’s big, big, big!
And he’s red, red, red!
And that’s how he got
to earn the name Big Red!
Big Red!
Big Red!”

[ SUPER: “Caution: May irriate the skin.” ]

Announcer: Big Red, by Bleego, makers of Termite Town.

Clean-up kit sold separately.

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Author: Don Roy King

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